/lit/ - Literature

>>9704414
Wu wei is best Way. Ender did nothing wrong.

Tiqqun sounds...kind of out of touch. I've written off anarchism as a viable political course. Their redeeming value is that it's at least honest. Theory of the Young-Girl sounds fun tho.

I've been fingering this myself:

>Contrary to expectations based on existing anthropological theory and the idea that rituals are essentially systems of meanings or primarily means of communicating meanings and on what seemed from the outside ‘‘a superabundance of meaning,’’ the puja was consistently described by its practitioners as being ‘‘empty of meaning’’. It appeared to be simple to fulfill as a category of activity by just ‘‘going through the motions,’’ if not as something better replaced by alternative means to the same ends. The puja actually requires a special commitment of ‘‘meaning to mean’’ in the sense of adding idiosyncratic content as symbolic meaning and being serious about the commitment to do so.

>Humphrey and Laidlaw argue that ritualization is the process of transforming ordinary, everyday acts into ritual through a ritual stance that ‘‘begins with a particular modification of the normal intentionality of human action’’ It modifies the relation between meaning and action by severing ‘‘the link, present in everyday activity, between the ‘intentional meaning’ of the agent and the identity of the act which he or she performs’’

>"With puja offerings, on the other hand, people were happy to declare multifarious, but in each case specific ‘meanings’. Sometimes these seemed to have been plucked from the air in response to our questioning, and no one was perturbed that different individuals proffered quite different such definite ‘meanings’ for the same object or act."

Looking for one ultimate meaning as the ground of things might be the wrong way to go. Jainism incidentally, advocates for hardcore pacifism. Such a thing is paradoxical, which gets resolved within a belief system that has a multiplicity of meanings.

I think China treats capital as its Tao. Profound implications if so. They're both as absurd.

>>9704454
No-self is the way to go. But the sovereign is the only real self.